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TLAC Beta (Summer '18)
Welcome to The Lettering Animation Course
How to get the most out of this course
After Effects Files for Animated Alphabet project
Essential Plugins for Speed and Functionality (13:32)
🔴 Kickoff Call Replay (37:41)
Intro to After Effects: Bonus Module
After Effects panels (3:24)
Understanding Compositions (and when to precomp!) (4:18)
Timeline: Layers, Properties, and Keyframes (14:16)
Graph Editor (11:35)
Illustrator to After Effects (13:04)
Separating Your Letters in Illustrator (3:58)
Exporting - what you need to know to not get tripped up
Write on effect pt. 1 – Monowidth lettering
🎬 The basics of Trim Paths (18:09)
🎬 Applying Trim Paths to lots of letters quickly (10:10)
🎬 Beyond the simple write on - pushing Trim Paths to be more (11:48)
💪 Challenge of the week
Write on effect pt 2 – Variable width lettering
🎬 Intro to Masks and Matte Layers (7:54)
🎬 Animating Letters with Matte Layers and Trim Paths (15:14)
🎬 Warpy Write On (11:45)
🔥 Creative Boost: How to never run out of ideas
💪Challenge of the week
🔴 Saturday Session Recording 06/30/18 (78:26)
Write Effect pt. 3 – Bouncy write ons
🎬 Intro to Puppet Pin Tool (3:28)
🎬 Write on effect pt 3: Bouncy (31:14)
🔥 Creative Boost: Technique stacking
💪 Challenge of the week
Natural looking bounces
🎬 Ball Bounce (13:36)
🎬 Adding Squash and Stretch (9:47)
🎬 Teetering and tottering (16:48)
🔥 Creative Boost: Dissecting other's animations
💪 Challenge of the week
🔴 Saturday Session 07/07/18 (83:52)
Morphing
🎬 Morphing Intro (4:56)
🎬 Loop Expression Intro (3:46)
🎬 Sleight of hand (20:08)
🎬 Morphing (27:25)
🔥 Creative Boost: How to get inspired without copying someone else
💪 Challenge of the Week
Looping
🎬 Lazy Loops (12:43)
🎬 Loop: Write Out & Overlap (12:43)
🎬 Loop Back (9:49)
🎬 Loop: Infinite Zoom (8:00)
🔥 Creative Boost: Observe and act
💪 Challenge of the week
🔴 Saturday Session 07/21/18 (61:53)
Textures
🎬 Adding textures to your animation (33:45)
🔥 Creative Boost: Don't focus on the gap (7:43)
💪 Challenge of the week
2.5D (Faking 3D)
🎬 2.5D (Faking 3D) (47:23)
🔥 Creative Boost: Are you behind?
💪 Challenge of the week
🔴 Saturday Session 07/28/18 (52:00)
Bonus!
✍️ Logo animation (29:19)
Tips & Tricks
Keyboard shortcuts
How to improve your Instagram posts
Free Project Files from around the interwebs
Guest Workshops
Lettering Workshop - Vector Edition with Ari Woeste (135:45)
Lettering Workshop - Lettering Process with Scott Biersack (49:57)
🎬 Loop: Infinite Zoom
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